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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment

Peakman, Julie

Paperback

Series: Cultural Histories

General World HistorySexuality

ISBN10: 1472554760
ISBN13: 9781472554765
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 13 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

In the period between 1650 and 1820 new worlds of sex opened up. This was a pivotal time when old religious beliefs and medical theories about sexuality and the body clashed with innovatory ideas emerging from natural science and philosophy. In addition, a burgeoning print industry fed a rapidly expanding reading public with erotica. With the breakdown of old community networks and increased urbanization, authorities reacted to increased sexual license with a raft of new regulations designed to curtail variations in sexual behaviour.

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.

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